Richards v. Riverside Iron Works
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Ohio County. Action by H. C. Richards, administrator, against the Riverside Iron Works. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, Judge:
John W. Campbell, the plaintiffs intestate, was before, and on, the 20th day of January, 1899, and also on the 16th day of *512February, 1899, the time of his death, a resident of Bellaire,. in the state of Ohio. For some time previous to the first mentioned date, he had been employed as a general laborer by the-defendant, The Riverside Iron Works, a corporation, at its manufacturing plant in Benwood, Ohio county, West Virginia. A short time before January 20, 1899, a wooden scaffold, consisting of three platforms, had been built by defendant, to-enable its bricklayers to work…
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